"straighten up and fly right" meaning in English

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      "form": "straightens up and flies right",
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      "form": "straightening up and flying right",
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    {
      "form": "straightened up and flew right",
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      "form": "straightened up and flown right",
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          "ref": "1973, United States, Foreign assistance and related agencies appropriations for 1974, hearings …, 93-1, Subcommittee on Foreign Operations and Related Agencies …, →OCLC, page 801:",
          "text": "Now, we are going to straighten up and fly right is what was said. Well, we didn't straighten up and fly right. We continued our wild spending at home and abroad.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To start behaving properly; get one's act together."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "get one's act together",
          "get one's act together"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) To start behaving properly; get one's act together."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "straight and narrow"
        },
        {
          "word": "wake up and die right"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "get right#Etymology_2"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to start behaving properly; get one's act together",
          "word": "ryhdistäytyä"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to start behaving properly; get one's act together",
          "word": "se ranger des voitures"
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        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to start behaving properly; get one's act together",
          "word": "sich zusammenreißen"
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          "sense": "to start behaving properly; get one's act together",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
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          "word": "poważnieć"
        },
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to start behaving properly; get one's act together",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
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          "word": "spoważnieć"
        }
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  "word": "straighten up and fly right"
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      "form": "straightens up and flies right",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "straightening up and flying right",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "straightened up and flew right",
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        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "straightened up and flown right",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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        "To start behaving properly; get one's act together."
      ],
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        "(colloquial) To start behaving properly; get one's act together."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "get right#Etymology_2"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to start behaving properly; get one's act together",
      "word": "ryhdistäytyä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to start behaving properly; get one's act together",
      "word": "se ranger des voitures"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to start behaving properly; get one's act together",
      "word": "sich zusammenreißen"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to start behaving properly; get one's act together",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "poważnieć"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to start behaving properly; get one's act together",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
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      "word": "spoważnieć"
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  "word": "straighten up and fly right"
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